BEIJING — The fucking retards who watch Korean TV issued an open letter today to Seoul National University, decrying a recent study describing fans of Korean TV as fucking retards.

The university study was based on field research gathered from a significant number of culturally vapid proto-humans to assess just what on God’s green Earth would possess them to tune in, week after week, to the kind of audiovisual effluent that passes for entertainment on the Korean peninsula.

Attempts to have test subjects answer a questionnaire—which included questions like “How long have you enjoyed Korean soap operas?” “What is your favorite Korean soap opera?” and “Can you count to seven?”—were abandoned after some 90 percent of them turned out to be illiterate, functionally brain-dead or at risk of injuring themselves with the pens provided.

Instead, subjects were caged, sedated and hooked up to MRI scanners in order to assess their physiological reactions to episodes of My Love from the Star, a recent hit TV show in which some plasticized Barbie doll falls in love with an androgynous half-man-half-table-lamp.

No one with an IQ over 45 has been able to endure more than 20 seconds of the show.

The exact content of the show could not be confirmed, as no one with an IQ over 45 has been able to endure more than 20 seconds of the show. Even the theme song has been proven to induce vomiting and blackouts in anyone with a working prefrontal cortex.

According to researchers, this kind of ball-achingly naive and lazy television is typically popular among the kind of semi-conscious ape-creatures their study focused on.

“Their ecstatic reactions to the insipidly written, wooden and utterly unsalvageable horseshit peddled to the vulnerable and mentally ill is evidence that these protozoic humans are all, for the most part, fucking retards,” the study said.

The researchers went on to write, “Short of a lobotomized hedgehog, no sentient mammal could find anything valuable in this indescribably shitty, over-lit, over-acted and embarrassingly produced dross, which should offend anyone with a sense of aesthetics.”

But fans of Korean soap operas hit back in their open letter which began, “My luv frum star fukking rools!!!~~ U science no nothing i luv him!!!! 🙂 🙂 ”

The screed went on to say, “Kim soo-hyun is a man hahahah 😉 hez butiful unlike U stupid.”

Researchers told reporters that while the arguments in the letter had been noted, they would not retract their conclusions.